Lt. JG. Gnai - Keeping Records Isn't Always A High Priority
Lich
((Main Engineering, Deck 15 - USS Artemis-A))
While Ens. Imril worked on repairing the suit, Gnai had tried to make light conversation about holoprogramming, only to stumble upon a seemingly shared passion. Delightfully, Ens. Imril was also interested in recreating planetary environments from long-lost cultures, which meant they were exactly the sort of person that Gnai was looking for to help it with a special project it had in mind - recreating the original homeplanet for the Galadoran species, lost centuries ago.
Gnai: Ensign, you’re interested in old cultures and places, as you’ve said… Would you be interested in helping this try and create a program recreating something truly ambitious?
Imril: I’m listening. Intently! I’m also switching to the water feed.
They tapped on the console, and Gnai watched as the liquid changed to water.
Gnai: Galadorans come from Galador II now, but in the past, eons ago… The original homeworld of Galador has long been destroyed, but it might be an interesting project to try and recreate it from histories passed down. ::beat:: If you would be interested and willing to partake in such a challenge with this.
Imril: Oh, that’s very interesting! I’d love to help with that! Thanks for considering me. For trusting me with something so precious.
Gnai: Of course, you seemed to be just the sort of person who might be able to help… And also be interested in the same things that this is.
Imril: But first, I’ll set up for the electroplating. ::Tapping on the console:: I’m adding some pinpoint conduit lines to the insides of the ‘plumbing’. ::More tapping::: Then I energize them with electromagnetic pulses. ::More tapping::: Then, I add trace metals to the water. These will be attracted to, fuse to, and fill in the gaps and cuts caused by the pollen. ::more tapping::
It watched as thin blue lines appeared, snaking around the suit slowly, pulsing in a manner not too dissimilar to how Gnai’s own tendrils pulsed with light when it was agitated (or excited - really, any state of heightened emotions).
Gnai: Oh, thank you, again, Ensign… This is very glad that you’re willing and able to help.
Imril: For this historical program, what kinds of sources do you have to work from?
Gnai bobbed slowly in its tank as it thought, trying to recall what they might be able to pull from. It wasn’t as if record-keeping was at the forefront of the Galadoran hive mind when it had to suddenly evacuate the first Galador, so there weren’t many pristine primary sources documenting what the planet would have looked like.
Gnai: Well… the exodus was a long time ago, so while records do exist, in many cases they’ve degraded or the processes for accessing them have deprecated.
Imril: Response
Gnai: Most of what will be most easily available are second and third-degree recountings of the event, and previous world.
These ranged from writing to imagery and every other data-format in between.
Imril: Response
Gnai: Early generations of diasporic Galadorans were less than… sentimental for some reason about the first Galador.
During the exodus from the planet, most of the attention given had been towards survival and dealing with the loss of the hive mind, rather than eulogizing the planet. It wasn’t like they could much go back to it anyways.
Imril: Response
Tags/TBC :)